Sweet Potato Processing Facility

Delhi,
LA
(2010)

Sweet Potato Processing Facility

Business Development, Food Manufacturing, Manufacturing, Rural

NMTC project provides area residents a place to work and 275 jobs.

Investment

NMTC Amount: $80,750,000
Total Project Cost: $155,000,000

IMPACT

275 FTE jobs
762 construction jobs

CDEs

Bluehub

Investor

Unknown

In eight parishes around Delhi, people are counting on sweet potatoes to restore their incomes. Delhi, Louisiana, that is. There, a new facility will transform locally grown sweet potatoes into sweet potato fries. One of the first plants to be built from the ground up using the industry’s latest technologies for processing and packing, the facility will also boast LEED standards for environmentally sustainable construction. But to the local residents, the economic opportunities resonate more strongly. Louisiana State University calculates that over the next two decades the Delhi facility should generate $19 million in local tax revenue with an additional $70 million in Louisiana state tax revenue. More importantly, it provides area residents a place to work- not only in the 275 direct jobs the facility has already created, but also in the 1,400-1,700 indirect jobs it generated. Those employment opportunities mean livelihoods, dignity and a chance to stay in the parishes they call home. Sweet.

MAP

Address: 77 Highway 609, Delhi, LA 71232

Census Tract: 22083970200

Other Louisiana Projects

LaSalle Lumber Company, L.L.C.

Olla,
LA
(2024)

Manufacturing

CDE(s): AMCREF Community Capital

A rural manufacturing project brought investment and jobs to Olla, LA

Baton Rouge Speech & Hearing Foundation

Baton Rouge,
LA
(2012)

Behavioral Health, Community, Healthcare

CDE(s): East Baton Rouge Community Development Entity

In December 2012, the Baton Rouge Speech & Hearing Foundation began construction on its new Emerge Center for Communication, Behavior & Development at Louisiana State University’s Innovation Park.

Myrtle Banks Building

New Orleans,
LA
(2013)

Community, Historic Rehabilitation, Mixed-use, Nonprofit Hub

CDE(s): First NBC Community Development Fund

With the help of NMTCs and HTCs, Alembic Community Development restored the structure and transformed it into the 23,000-square-foot Jack and Jake’s Public Market, artist exhibition space and shared office

Riverland Medical Center

Ferriday,
LA
(2018)

Community, Healthcare, Hospitals and Emergency Services, Rural

CDE(s): Hope Enterprise, The Reinvestment Fund, USBCDE

Riverland Medical Center serves rural Concordia Parish in eastern central Louisiana, about 180 miles north of New Orleans along the Mississippi River.